A lawsuit brought by environmental groups, including The Nature Conservancy (TNC), has forced 12 ranching families off the Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) in northern California where they have held the leasing rights since Congress created the Park in 1962. The Biden Administration settled the lawsuit, funded by the TNC, for $30 million dollars.
The lawsuit was brought in 2016 against the Park Service with the goal of evicting all the ranchers off the 21,000 acres where they raised locally grown meats and produce for the Marin County community.
All this was done in secret and the public process required by federal regulations was ignored. This happened in the last days of the Biden administration to “rush the agreement before the presidential election.”
“In April, the House Committee on Natural Resources opened an investigation into the National Park Service bureaucrats who worked with the radical groups to drive ranchers and farmers out of PRNS,” quoted in The Federalist’s story. Once again, The Nature Conservancy was the driving force that made this happen by filing a lawsuit against the federal government.
